In the midst of a serious political crisis, Brazil went through presidential elections in 2018. During the pre-campaign and part of the electoral race, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) led the vote intentions, ...

This study aims to seek complementary variables to the analysis of the relationship between the Executive and the Legislature concerning the Brazilian decision making process, under the approach of presidential success and ...

The objective of this study is to comprehend how policies designed to improve women’s political representation are inserted in the decision agenda, by conducting a case study of a significant proposal in the Brazilian ...

This thesis is part of the range of recent studies of political and electoral development in Africa (since 2000), and seeks to highlight the simultaneous relationship between the role of political parties and voters in ...

Argentina sanctified the UNFCCC in 1993 and accomplished its differentiated obligations, the creation of the National Comunications (mapping of causes and possible solutions for climate changes in a national scale). Thus, ...

The term “judicial activism” has been widely used in the media, well as in the academic papers. It turns out, however, that this is an ambiguous term. Thus, the present work initially sought to find the origins of this ...

This thesis proposes to present a mapping of the parliamentary profile of the deputies who assumed mandates in the 2003-2007, 2007-2011 and 2011-2015 legislatures, through the analysis of the legislative production of these ...

This research deals with the I National Plan for the Sustainable Development of the African Peoples and Traditional Communities. Created in 2013, the Plan had as its goal the preservation of the African tradition in Brazil ...

This research analyzes the construction of political discourses that involved the creation of the Superior
Court of Justice [Superior Tribunal de Justiça – STJ]. The analysis takes place on the last three major
moments ...

This research investigates the current militant frame of the PT and PSDB in Sao Paulo state, comparing them at different moments of their party path: youth and adult militancy – emphasizing the dimension "party on the ...

The Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), founded in 1964 during the national authoritarian developmentalism and under the influence of technocratic thinking, can be characterized as an institution that has ...

This thesis has been developed based upon the hypothesis that PT and PSDB, the main farsided Brazilian political parties in the last two decades, have made an ideological centripetal
move, approaching political agendas ...

The decision-making process within political parties is one of the most recurrent themes in the debate on the institutionalization of the party system. In this sense, the objective of this research is to analyze the ...

The reflections about models of rural development have been present in Brazilian’s reality since the 20th century. But to perform an in-depht reflection of the policies which are aimed to it, continues to be a difficult ...

Since 2008, when the first “Dry Law” came into force in Brazil, drivers’ awareness and attitude have undergone several transformations, the main one being the habit of not driving after drinking. In this dissertation, I ...

The object of this research consists of the proportional electoral coalitions that aim the election of municipal representatives. The goal was to verify whether changes in the electoral magnitude (the amount of seats in ...

The state of Mato Grosso over extended periods of time corresponded to three units of the Federation, including the states of Rondônia and Mato Grosso do Sul. The extensive territory had long borders with Bolivia and ...

This thesis is dedicated to the unveiling of the building game of the Brazilian political and economic possibilities in the recent period taking into account a specific period of national political and economic debate ...

This thesis seeks to analyse the process of technological modernization of the Argentine and Brazilian navies between 1900 and 1930. During this period, the rivalry between the two great South American countries was ...

The period placed between the early 2000s and the mid 2010s set up new experiences on the horizon of Latin America that presented themselves as alternatives to the neoliberal hegemony that followed the processes of democratic ...